Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

Recent observations of white dwarf explosions have revealed new insights into their diversity and relationship to dark energy ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

The aptly named Dwarf 3 will make you think again ... This isn’t a great telescope for shooting planets – even the moon and sun (solar filters are supplied) don’t exactly fill the frame.

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer ...

Here are some of this month’s highlights. As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky.

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the body ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Credit ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few ...